Worthington City Council: Last call on bar's monkey business

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Dec 13, 2017 at 10:20 AM

ANDREW KINGThisweeknews.com

Worthington leaders will oppose the renewal of a liquor permit for the bar where a double homicide occurred in November.

Worthington City Council voted Dec. 11 to object to the renewal, less than a month after two men reportedly shot each other outside Monkey’s Bar & Grille at 6116 Huntley Road on Worthington’s east side.

They were Worthington’s first homicides in more than two decades, according to Anne Brown, a Worthington spokeswoman.

Worthington Division of Police Chief Jerry Strait said the incident in the early-morning hours of Nov. 15 was not the first trouble officers had encountered at the bar.

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